“If this sounds Utopian…

“The only way out of this political trap is progressive internationalism, based on solidarity among large majorities around the world who are prepared to rekindle democratic politics on a planetary scale. If this sounds Utopian, it is worth emphasizing that the raw materials are already available.”

Fredric Jameson is credited with the observation, one he denies authorship of while confessing to memory loss of the source, “that it is easier to imagine the end of the world than to imagine the end of capitalism.”

All that is Solid Melts into Air

“To be modern is to find ourselves in an environment that promises us adventure, power, joy, growth, transformation of ourselves and the world—and, at the same time, that threatens to destroy everything we have, everything we know, everything we are.”
Marshall Berman (1982)